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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1936.

TAKING THE BIBLE

LITERALLY

Famous "Monkey Trial".

BRILLIANT CROSS-

EXAMINATION

DANGEROUS GANG ATTACK

DRIVING

Speeding On

Island Road

LORRY LOADED

WITH TIMBER-

The Hon. Mr. T. H. King. In- spector General of Police, being

Under the heading.-"Sad Death; that he desired to call Bryan as a ¦ indisposed, was unable to appear

witness for the defense. Judge Raulston's eyes goggled, and the Commoner's palm leaf froze in his

"For what purpose do you desire to examine Colonel Bryan?" in- quired the Judge.

"We are calling him to testify as an expert on the Bible," was the reply is reputation as an authority on Scripture la recognized throughout the world."

Of a Hero," the "American Mer- cury publishes the following arti- cle by Paul Y. Anderson-

One of the most memorable'dra- | hand.

Was the mas of modern times cross-examination of William Jen- nings Bryan by Clarence Darrow, In the closing hours of Tennessee's celebrated Monkey Trial. Two old men, both burdened with age and nonours, but each at the peak of his powers. One: eloquent, mag- betic, passionate: three times his Judge Raulston solicitously asked party's candidate for President Bryan whether he objected to be and still idolized by millions. The ing a witness. Thus, all unwitting- other, cold, impassive; the great-ly, he put him on the spot. Bryan est criminal lawyer and the most had no choice, and so went to the Invincible debater of his genera-slaughter. tlon. It was stirring and it was pathetic.

In 1925, a bill had been passed by the Tennessee General Assembly prohibiting the teaching of any theory which "denies the story of the divine creation of

and

ALLEGED BY PROSECUTION

Indian's Denials In Witness Stand

ASSAULT CASE HEARING

It was suggested by the prosecu- as complainant against Tso Manı

tion at the Central Police, Court Bun when he was charged before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central yesterday that the assault on Sar- Police Court yesterday for drivingwan Singh, with which four other

Indians, Gurdial Singh, a lorry without due care

Man caution on August 17...

Singh, Dedar Singh and Chanan Singh were charged, was the re- Inspector 8. C. Saunders statedsult of premeditation by a gang that the lorry was being driven of roughs. along Island Road to the east of Aberdeen at a speed of about 25 or 30 miles per hour. There were "a lot of boat people about at the

time and the lorry was heavily, S. Hugh Jones. loaded with timber.

"Defendant was fined $20.

Pang Kam Wing was fined $10 for driving without due care and caution on August 22.

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Mr. W. Schoñeld was the Magis-deng South Sascolio.luscious for the defendants, while the com- trate. Mr. D. McCallum appeared plainant was represented by Mr.

testined

The Arst defendant that on the evening of July 25 he was in his house and heard Katar Kaur. the wife of another Indian. His task as plain enough, but

calling out "thief." Witzess rush- its accomplishment was inpossible.

Traffic-Sergeant G. Your stated

ed downstairs and saw the com- Unless he was to undermine the that the defendant was travellingplainant and another man run- State's position fatally, he must along Lockhart Road and whenning away towards Tung Lo Wan hold resolutely to the doctrine that approaching the tramline near the Road where they entered a car.

Safors' and Soldiers' Home slowed the Elble should be interpreted

HEARD. SHOUTS literally. Otherwise, it was open top to let a tram pass Behind AS maa

About 9.45 p.m. on the next anyone's interpretation, the statute the tramcar was a lorry and the night Katar Kaur was again heard was meaningless, and the

defendant tried to continue his calling out "thief, thief" This was lost.

way by cutting in between the time the complainant ran AWBY tram and the lorry. The lorry but fell on the stone steps leading smashed into the side of the car. mas Scopes, a youthful biology

from the road. In the fall he in- teacher in the Dayton High School

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jured his leg. Complainant tried Rapplerea ascertained that Scopes

to strike witness with a hockey was using a textbook which might

Frank Gray was summoned with stick he was carrying but witness be construed as violating the stat. Vent."Amens" of the audience. But Aviver to drive his car in Queen's I whistles attracted a large crowd having allowed 23 unlicensed wrested this from him. Police

taught in the Bible." Dr. George Rappleyea, Dayton chemist, be- tame interested in the new law. Among his friends was John Tha-

ute.

Next he ascertained that the American Civil Liberties Union would finance a test case, and he persuaded Scones to serve as the guinea pig. Finally, by prearrange- mert,

warrant.

he swore out a and the 24-year-old pedagogue was Indicted for teaching evolution.

Up to now the affair bad been purely local and entirely friendly.

Most any evening would discover the prosecutor, the prosecuting wit- ness, and the defendant gathered over their milk shakes around a drugstore table. chuckling about the cozy little tableau they were planning to stage. But they failed

to reckon on the alertness of the press. Within a week the story was on the front page of every metropolitan paper in the country. Inside a fortnight the towns-peo ple were startled by an invaston of 125 reporters "from New York, Chicago, "Baltimore, St. Louis. Washington and other cities, WI- lam. Jennings Bryan, never one toi shrink from publicity, lost no time volunteering for the State's pro- secution. Clarence Darrow Dudley Field Malone, no shrinking violets either, promptly rallied to the defense. And the stage, which had been arranged for a bucolic farce, became the setting for drama which was to fascinate the civilized world.

Cause

Darrow had planned his attack carefully. To the opening ques tions Bryan responded with stout affirmations, in which he was re- peatedly encouraged by the fer-

Road East on August 20. A fine or Chinese to the scene. of $10 was imposed.

Witness said that he did hit the complainant with the stick to pre- vent him from running away. | Beaing that the complainant could not run away, witness left him and went to Tung Lo Wan Road

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under Darrow's withering fire he gradually became desperate. Cor- nered, tormented, wounded in his pride, he fought back spectacularly. Ho Sit Yu, the unlicensed driver #times rising from the witness was charged with driving without chair to harangue the crowd. He

a licence and was fined $10. stirred his hearers to roars of ap-

Trime-Sergeant Bethel stated proval and tempests of cheers. that at that time the Police were

arrow remained cool, cruel, con- checking licences and the defen- to look for a constable. On the

dants were stopped. Second de- When you read that the whale and was given 24 hours to produce police station. Second defendant WHILE WORKING

begah with Jonah fendant said that he had a licence phone and called the Bay View

and together they went to a tele- GIRL KILLED

temptuous.

Darrow

wallowed Jonah-do you inter-th pret that literally?" he asked.

He appeared next day but without the pcence still asserting Bryan replied: "When I read that he had one. There was no that a big fish swallowed Jonah, I record of the

second defendant believe it. I believe everything in ever having had a licence, the Bible should be accepted as it Was writter, I believe in a God who can make a whale, and make

a man, and make both of them do BIG HEROIN what He pleases."

"Are you prepared to say the fish was made especially to swal low Jonah?" :

"The Bible doesn't say, so I

PILLS SEIZURE

way he met the second defendant

spoke over the phone.

Sub-Inspector Madgwick asked that the complainant be brought to the Station. The complainant being unable to walk, witness went to the Station himself, leaving the second defendant to look after the injured man,

Third defendant, stated witness. lived with him and was last seen on the night in question, standing on the balcony looking into the street: This was noted by wit

am not prepared to say." came CONFISCATION ORDERness as he was leaving the house.

the answer. "Let me add that one miracle is just as easy to believe as another" and

If the jury expected front-row seats at the big show, they were disappointed, for they missed prac- tically all the fireworks. The de- fense had summoned à formidable array of scientists from leading universities and would place, say.

**The Bible

||

GRANTED

Fourth defendant was not on the scene.

Cross-examined witness said that the complainant was not a

AUW PIT SENG'S TRADING CO., LTD:

CARGO ON JUNK

Struck By Heavy Load Of Fruit

JURY'S VERDICT AT INQUEST

An inquest into the death of a 10-year old Chinese girl was held at the Kowloon Magistracy yea- Ą.

Macfadyen sat as Coroner."

On August 14, the deceased was working on board her father's cargo-boat unloading baskets of fruit. Her job was to fasten the hooks onto the baskets, but, on

i

"Would it be easy for you to An application for the conősca- believe that Jonah swallowed the tion of 15.000

heroin pil's

Maja man as were all the people terday afternoon Mr. Q. A. was whale if the Bible sald so?"

"I the Bible said so." was the Central Police Court yesterday.

granted by Mr. 8. F. Balfour at theving in that quarter.

DUTY TO REPORT firm reply.

The pills were found on the second Mr. Hugh Jones asked why he 52y8 Joshua.com-floor of No: 145, Belchers Street had reported to Inspector Madg- manded the sun to stand still for during a raid conducted by R. O. wick that the defendant had been purpose of prolonging the Grimmitt, who was accompanied by assaulted and not caught as a day. So you believe that?"

the late Detective Sergeant Mintey. thief. To this witness replied that it was his duty to report the mat- ter to the Police.

the

"I do."!!

.

"Is it your belief that the sun went around the earth at thanį time?"

"No, I believe

the earth goes

"I suppose 50,"· "Mr. Bryan, have you any idea of what would have happened 11 the earth had been stoppet in mid-flight?"

1

RETURNED BANISHEE

Mr. Hugh Jones put it to wit- ness that the reason for the re-

this occasion, she failed to hook one rope properly. The baskets were supposed to be securely tied with two ropes. but one strand was only hooked instead of all three, causing one load of two baskets weighing about one hun- dred weight to fall on her,

Kowloon Hospital stated that a Dr. Luk Chuen-hsuen, of the

fractured limb and, coupled with haemorrhage and shock, probably caused her death.

..

Pub Pu, 22, was charged before port was that he thought that a Harvard professor of geology on around the sun.”

Mr. B. F. Balfour at the Central complainant was going to die and the stand, offering to prove by! "Then if the day was lengthen-Magistracy yesterday, for breaking wanted an ambulance. No word nt that the earth is millions of led it must have been the earth into the second floor, of No. 17 had been mentioned about theft. years old; Judge Raulston would that, stopped, wouldn't vou say?" Bonham Road, at 11 a.m. on Thurs- Mr. Hugh Jones: How much rule the testimony inadmissible.

day, with the help of another were you given for this job? whereupon the defense would de

man, who jumped to the Brst floor Witness: Nothing: I am not that mand its right to place the testi-

and escaped: A cigarette case and sort of man. I am a Police Re-- mony in the record to show the

$38 were taken. The property was servist and would not do that.

Her father. Kwok Kwan, master higher courts what it would have

not recovered.

of the cargo-boat, déposed that he Re-examined by Mr. McCallum. proved had it been permitted: Surprised. Bryan said he, han

had used that method of loadin“ The defendant was also charged witness said that the insinuation Judge Raulston would excuse the not

cargo on to vessels for the last with returning from banishment. jury, and the professor would pro-

of the prosecution that he had Sentence

ten years without mishap. of one year's hard conspired with others to do the ceed to give his testimony in af-

Оп labour was imposed.

the day in question "> fidavit form. And so with the other

job was entirely false.

daughter did not hook one load The hearing was adjourned to properly with the result, that the noted scientists. All testified, and virtually everyone heard or read

September 21.

rope broke causing her death. their, testimony except the luckless Jurors.

the

"Don't you know it would have been converted instantly Into molton mass of matter?"

.d

says

Do you

Bryan winced, but replied: "It says every living thing, and I am unwilling to question it."

| FALSE REPORT

Li Wing Tong, exporter of the fruit, said that the ropes were never used the second time as they went with the shipment. This was a paint at issue with the

OF ROBBERY Jury, Messrs. C. M. Hall, (fore-

Travelling Trader Sent To Prison

"I believe the Lord would have taken care of that, too."

"You believe the story of the the Ark, although he could nam Flood to be literally true?”

no scientists who shared that be- Under the Tennessee Constitu-

"I do. Bir."

Het: tion, a statute, to be valid must be

"Mr. Bryan. the Bible

Darrow asked him whether he "reasonable." The defense seized every living thing that "was not could name one selentist whom he avidly upon this point What, ask-taken on the Ark with Noah was respected, and Bryan named ed the defense, does the Bible story drowned in the Flood.

man whom he Identiked as a mean? Everyone,

defense believe that?”.

teacher of geology, "cut near Lin- pointed out, is free to interpret the

"I do."

coln, Nebraska.” Under further Bible story as he chooses, and al- "Including the fishes that were questioning. however, he couldn't most everyone gives it a different left behind?

recall, what this teacher taught Interpretation. The effect of this

Attorney General Stewart inter- canny piece of strategy was to force

vened desperately, demanding to the prosecution into the position of

Hung Wah, 29, travelling trader, be told the purpose of the exami-was charged before Mr. 8. F. Bal- holding that the Bible must be in- The thought of dishes being nation. Fale and trembling. Bryan four at the Central Magistracy. terpreted literally.

drowned startled the loyal au- arose, and shaking his fist over yesterday, with giving false in- Throughout the early stages of dience. Asked when the Flood his head, shouted" in a hoarse formation to Inspector A. E. Carey.: the trial Bryan had fared badly occurred. Bryan consulted Usher's voice: enough in his clashes with Darrow Bible Concordance. and gave the

by purporting that he had been "The purpose is to hold up to robbed of $500, by two men at on the stump undoubtedly he date as 2348 B.C., or 4273 years ridicule every person who believes Murray Road on Tuesday. would have shown to better ad- ago. Did not Bryan know, asked the Bible, and I am perfectly will- vantage.. but in the infighting of Darrow, that Chinese civilizationing to have the world know their the defendant had been given the Inspector M. Murphy, sald that the courtroom his brief flurries of had been traced back at least 7000 | purpose."

money by some persons in Canton oratory were ineffective against years? The sweating witness con- "Our purpose." Darrow grated, to book passages to Singapore, and the biting sarcasm and corrosive ceded that he didn't know.

"is to prevent bigots from wit of his opponent. But not until

con-complained that, he had lost the Under Darrow's relentless pound-trolling education "in the United money. the afternoon session

The defendant went to of July 20ing Bryan testined to be belter States. That is all, and you know Na 2 Police Station and reported did the duel approach its climax that all human and animal life it." On that day Darrow startled the now existing on earth was directly gathering with the announcement descended from the occupants of

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that he had been robbed..

The defendant was sentenced to three months' hard labour,

man), D. A. Webb and A. P. Tar- buck.

After Det-Bergt. D. Davis gavė evidence the Jury returned their verdict as follows: "We find that the deceased died from "fracture, after being accidentally struck by basket of fruit on board a car- go-boat on August 14”

to

SOLDIER SENTENCED

Reman Thomas Nelson, Royal Ueter Rifles, has been sentenced nine months imprisonment with, hard, labour, and discharged the Bervice with ignominy as the résult of Court Martial findings Just promu'gated. Accused was charged before a District Court Martial with striking Sergeant J.. Bannister, of the Mtary Provost Staff Corps.